Westeck News

JULY 28, 2023

Content courtesy of Government of Canada Window and Door Retrofit Grants – Government of Canada There are a number of options for upgrading the energy efficiency of your windows and doors. Learn more about replacing your windows and doors. A rough opening* is defined as a structurally stable opening in an outside wall.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The crossbar gable – with an arcade of large windows on either side – contains the family spaces with an open plan kitchen, dining and living space under a vaulted ceiling.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The building’s form—a set of interlocking white cubes—responds to the client’s initial idea for what the house would look like and emerges from careful evaluations of views and spatial optimization. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2023

International auction house Sotheby's has announced its acquisition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer -designed building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The company said that it would employ an architect to "review and maintain" the structure after it takes possession in September 2024.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2022

metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. The 25-storey tower, which opened in July, has a concrete base, elevator and stair shafts, with the rest of the structure made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam. Ascent, an 86.6-metre-tall

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

The studio renovated the Grade-II listed building – the only factory designed by the architect – into a "premium workspace" for property developer Dorrington. It will be occupied by wallpaper company Sanderson Design Group , which originally commissioned the building as an extension to its main factory more than a century ago.

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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. We design buildings that are functional and meet the client’s needs, but we also design them with a theme or an architectural style in mind. Best Architects do so much more than that.

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Westeck News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Content courtesy of C2ES How to Build Resilience Climate change has been a key factor in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the West. Warmer, drier conditions also contribute to the spread of the mountain pine beetle and other insects that can weaken or kill trees, building up the fuels in a forest.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. To the east, the building opens up towards the main entrance. Its surface uses warm, iridescent hues to blend into its natural environment.

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Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2022

Memola Estudio stripped back walls in the apartment to reveal the concrete structure. To contrast the wooden floors Memola Estudio removed walls and parts of the ceiling, and stripped back finishes to expose the building's concrete structure, piping and ductwork. Bathrooms were also updated in different shades of green.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. In hot climates like that, if you can lower the air temperature, then it would require less air conditioning because the air around the building is cooler."

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2023

Los Angeles architecture studio Formation Association has turned an assemblage of buildings in West Hollywood into a new home for London-based auction house Phillips. We started with idiosyncratic conditions and buildings layered with history," said studio co-founder John K Chan, who led the project. "We With a ceiling over 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Linden Brown Architecture created a live-work structure in Oregon The mixed-use building is located in the St Johns neighbourhood in North Portland and sits on a sloped parcel that was formerly occupied by a post-war dwelling. The old structures's concrete foundation and basement walls were retained.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Designed to have "a fun and unconventional presence", the extension was conceived by THISS Studio as though it were a piece of furniture rather than a conventional structure. Its design evolved from the client's original vision of a full-width rear extension.

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RMJM Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While 60% of the total property space has been allocated to over 40 open and green spaces, the project houses 240 1–3 bedroom apartments, spread over two low-rise buildings. All of these carefully curated features of Terrazzo come together to offer a unique and serene living experience.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The structure for the 530-square-foot timber-clad retreat was craned into place and set on piles to prioritize views and minimize impact on the nationally preserved land. Set on the edge of a very loose-knit cluster of residential properties, the lodge is located on the grounds of the family home in which the clients grew up.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

The chapel has an exposed concrete structure "The simple chapel volume, set in the vast nature, is constructed as a lifted box, signifying a separation from the secular world," explained Eunsok. "It Alongside the main worship space on the first floor, which is named the Sea Chapel, the building contains two smaller prayer spaces.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". The three-storey structure comprises six volumes arrayed around a central courtyard.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Since, Stott and Levy have made more affordable models as well as shelters and community buildings for unhoused people. The prefabs’ steel framework allows windows to be placed anywhere along the perimeter of a home.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has completed a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. It has a concrete structure Spread across 17 floors, the 40,000-square-metre building by Allies and Morrison is designed to operate as a "vertical campus".

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e-architect

AUGUST 15, 2023

Constructed within the UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework, the building is Grosvenor’s flagship Net Zero development, and offers 26,500 sq. Constructed within the UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework, the building is Grosvenor’s flagship Net Zero development, and offers 26,500 sq.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The two pitched structures connect on an underground floor level Completed in 2020, Elizabeth Roberts Architects used the grade to embed part of the plan and maximize views of the mountains. This inconspicuous space creates the effect of two separate buildings from the approach." acre site with a steep drop-off.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Located in the Poet's Corner conservation area of Herne Hill, the studio was tasked with retaining the late 19th-century building's character while opening up its "disconnected and dark" interiors. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

Architectural studio LOHA has transformed an agricultural building in California into the light-filled Sandi Simon Center for Dance with polycarbonate walls that evoke the "ephemeral nature of performance". Prior to its recent revamp, the wood-framed building had one level and a basement.

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2023

Can a VR-enabled AEC Firm transform building projects? 0 dbarista Fri, 06/16/2023 - 14:36 Virtual Reality With the aid of virtual reality and 3D visualization technologies, designers, consultants, and their clients can envision a place as though the project were in a later stage. The space, volume, and structure.

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Architecture Ideas

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Let’s see window grill design. Doors and Windows. While doors save us from thieves, burglars, unnecessary and unwant people, windows provide us with fresh air and sunlight. Windows allows us to have a peek at the outsiders’ or neighbors’ lifestyles. Do you know you can even add an interior window too?

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e-architect

AUGUST 25, 2023

Grappling with context, history, and appropriateness, the design looked to the building and material typologies of the surrounding 1920s-era warehouses, as well as the masonry and concrete construction found at Huston Tillotson University (a historically Black university that overlooks the property).

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Dwell

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Then it was built and the clients moved in, and they gave me some very direct feedback: It was such an energy-hungry house to keep warm," recalls Rafe. "It Rafe’s build started with a tight budget and a challenging lot. Rafe opted to wrap the building in corrugated Zincalume. It was all mathematics and physics," says Rafe.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Design Thoughts Architects

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A Modern Commercial Building Design. The client owned a 30*40 property adjacent to the main road. As a result, he decided to construct a commercial structure. Though it’s a commercial building, the client desired a well-planned modern commercial building design that can attract most of the customers.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 4, 2022

DC Van Hall Staatsliedenbuurt building, Amsterdam studio housing interior design, Dutch Architecture Photos. DC Van Hall revives industry and structuralism in Amsterdam’s Staatsliedenbuurt area. DC Van Hall, Staatsliedenbuurt building. In the design, the original building is still recognisable in several ways.

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Deezen

JULY 10, 2022

Before being taken over by the school, the existing building housed the wind tunnel testing facilities of The Martin Centre – a research space belonging to the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. Windows incorporated into the gable end and elevations provide a visual connection with the outdoors.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Photos © studiohanswilschut CasaNova Rotterdam Tower Building News The Muse and CasaNova In the wake of the economic crisis, Barcode Architects took the initiative in 2013 to develop a tower on the Wijnhaven 69 plot, where The Muse now stands. As light changes, the strong relief in the stone constantly gives the building a new look.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Each project Stillwater has the pleasure of partaking in is special, since every project possesses its own unique attributes and design requirements, tailored to reflect the distinct vision of our clients.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

It sits at the centre of a larger complex comprised of five neighbouring buildings that include a delicatessen, restaurant and pre-school. Named Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the 495-square-metre bookstore is an extension of a two-storey building previously used as a seminar house by Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University.

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